The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-12-28
woMEN PAPER- HANGERS.
Au n~iustratlyo Esampio ana rs Moral.

fAu lituStFAttFO 1Ntihpto unW 6S MOfh's
Two sisters in Des MONIES. Ia. are
professional paper-hangers. and charge
at the same rate as men working in
that picturesque but protracted calling.
The profuse use of the step-ludder would
make 1t entirely appropriate to- call
these women step-sisters, but the fact
remains that their kinship is of the in
Innate nature mentioned. Yet il must
not BIO thought from this incident that
not less than two women and only
blood relatives can enter this light and
airy business. Unlike the suffrage right,
the right to WELD a brush, to mix paste,
and to adjust tho elusive room paper ia
open TO all womon Corners. If the Des
Moines example should be followed and
women in all parts of the country
should enter this sphere of work u
mighty change would come over the
spirit of the householder's dreams. A
mind which has never scared with Mil
ton or iloated along tho innocuous sur
face OF Iupper's verse or climbed the
rocky heights Of Walt Whitman's wood
cut sort of stanzas may yet readily inn
agino the methods of hiring the woman
papcr-banger and her methods of doing
the work.
- ~ ~ nho"h NtibN NV Aiath tuEO
is never TO be seen at his place of bust
ness. Only his slate is there, and that
tells that he is elsewhere. In fact,
there are persons willing to make afra-
davit that the ordinary paper-hanger is
entirely a slate formation. How differ
n would be the case if Il m wore
to be engaged to make the walls attract
i've. Repairing to her shop, she is
found knitting her brows over q fine
piece of n~eedlowork. or smiling over Il
novel which is ending well. Acanary
bird sings in a cage made out of q dis
used paste-pot. Vines run over q trclils
work of miniature stcp-ladders. On
the table lie carelcssly the proof-sheets
of How Not to Papers Room" You
make known your GRAND and n hasty
consulting Of tho appointment book fol-
lows. Yes" says the papcr-hanger,
at last; II can come as well rs not. The
authors breakfast will be oYer at Q u.
M, and the Society to Prevent Cruelty
ut the Polls docs not meet till 7:30 p.
M" Having engaged Your paper-hang-
er III this charming and unconventional
way, you may well be prepared for a
novel style of paste and scissors work.
There will be no going out. at IL TO
sharpen scissors" nor repeated alb
StnccS 10 get tOOlS. Inc felnOteSt
corner will ut last feel that it has rights
which paper-hangers are bound to re-
spect. II Il graduate, the employee will
cheer your heart by asides, lillo Ten
nyson has just such n paper in tho
room where he writes" or Private
Dalzel composes under q similar Dor
DER
Thus the day will go pleasantly. Tho
paste will be n jewel, SO well made.
Tho brush, with an embroidered handle,
will glide over the happy walls. The
clippings will tall like applc-parings in
romantic-shapcs. There viii be nothing
prosaic, and the bill will be sent in
done in worstcd work, The most en-
couraging fact in the Des Moincs case is
that no men have yet sawed the sisters
siep-ladders, or tipped over the paste, or
sent them 10 tho wrong house, or in Il
dozen ways tried TO discourage their
venture in q calling whore the good
seem TO die first. These sisters may
SOON lecture Oil what ! Know About
Papor-llnnging," and in this way East
crn women may early learn of tho best
way 10 enter and-worl in the business.
The glad day may yet dawn when Mas
~sachusctts women will put n dNdo on
the Statc-IIouse dome, and Il border
in patriotic hucs on Bunker Hill monu-
| mrni.